Eduardo Chillida Quotes

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.